You can lean that way but Ishbia isn't. He wants to try and win now. I just hope they can work some player personnel magic and that Bud can do a lot better with our lineup than what Vogel could.
Ishbia has good reason to do so. Last season's team never had a consistent and smooth development of chemistry and proper game plans, except for big-3 isos. While Oubre, DJones, Jalen Johnson, Bitadze etc. came out big contributing for their respective teams, our min player acquisitions all failed miserably except for Gordon and partly Eubanks, yet we wasted until trading deadline to integrate them. As a team we were consistently medicre on defense except maybe a couple games, and far below expectation on offense, as we never solved the hard bodying-up and quick double teaming on Book and KD. We squeezed in purely on average talent but immediately embarassed by the young and dynamic Wolves, without means to adjust.
The failure is mainly on coaching and management for the roster composition and game preps. The players have their shortcomings but good team play shall properly feature their strength and cover the shortcomings, as no roster is perfect, not even the new champion which ever of Mavs and Celts would win out. So, better coaching and smarter small-range roster moves may just be enough.
